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Yetter Hoe Accommodates
Row Spaces To 40 Inches
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Yetter rotary hoes are available in sizes from 12 foot to 41
foot and accommodate row spaces up to 40 inches without
adjustment. Spoon-billed teeth rake through the ground,
shattering crusty soil and dislodging weeds for a positive
kill.
PEORIA, HI. Twenty-one
inch diameter wheels on Yetter
rotary hoes are reveled for dura
bility, turn on sealed ball bearings,
and are mounted with only one
wheel per arm. This permits grea
ter flexibility with less strain on
the arms.
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Rotary hoes are available in
sizes from 12’ to 41* and will
accommodate row spaces up to
40” without adjustment. Wheels
have been designed to permit hoe
ing between plants and rows with
out injury to plants. Tension
springs may be unhooked and arm
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Wool ‘Self-Help’ Promo Asset To Ag
DENVER. Colo.— The “self
help” promotion program for lamb
and wool was described as a criti
cal asset to American agriculture
today and in the future during a
meeting of the House Subcommit
tee on Livestock, Dairy and Poul
try recently in Washington, D.C.
Testifying for the American
Sheep Industry Association,
Executive Director Rodger Was
son lauded the value of the sheep
industry’s promotion program in
pioneering national marketing
programs for lamb and wool and
putting strong producer education
programs into play for sheep pro
ducers. Through the National
Wool Act, the sheep industry
funds its own efforts to better
inform the country’s 114,000
and wheel assemblies raised for
hoeing bedding crops or tall
plants. A protective screen is stan
dard on all models.
Spoon-billed teeth rake through
the ground, shattering crusty soil
and dislodging weeds for a posi
tive kill. Chemicals are introduced
into the weed root zone by the
action of the teeth. The result is
greater weed control. Row crops
and bedded plants can be hoed
with equal ease and with no mod
ification to the unit
Where wind erosion is a prob
lem, the Yetter rotary hoe forms
surface pockets that arrest blow
ing topsoil in one pass.
Contact Yetter Mfg. Co., Inc.,
Colchester, IL 62326-0358, out
side IL.. (800) 447-5777; in IL..
(800) 325-7165.
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sheep producers, he said.
The Wool Act provides the
sheep industry with a base of sup
port through provisions, including
a checkoff on wool incentive pay
ments to fund industry develop
ment programs. American sheep
producers take a referendum vote
every four years to continue the
funding.
The timing is this first legi
slated national checkoff in agri
culture was important, he said,
since it coincided with a time
when the support infrastructure
for the shrinking sheep industry
was steadily declining.
“Federal and state sheep
research, education, economic
reports, and supply surveys were
steadily diminished. Pharmaceuti
cal, feed, and equipment compa
nies shifted their research and
development resources to more
lucrative markets,” Wasson told
the committee. “In this environ
ment, the Wool Act checkoff has
been an essential tool for sheep
producers to help themselves.
Checkoff dollars are now funding
market information services,
development programs, and pro
ducer education to fill the needs of
the industry.”
Wasson told committee mem
bos the program has not been sta
tic, but has changed throughout its
existence to meet the changing
demands of the industry. “Market
ing programs have been targeted
at the distribution chain, combat
ting low producer prices which do
not reflect the increasing demand
for lamb.” The key, Wasson said,
are the year-long market building
programs launched with proces-
sors and retailers.
Stiff competition from foreign
wools led to the creation of niche
markets for American wool,
including the development of the
trademarked cotton-wool blend
fabric called Alamera, Wasson
said. “The association has worked
a lot in the development area to
create the ideas, interest and pro
cedures for new textile products
using wool,” Wasson said.
‘To bring American wool to
global standards, an extensive
producer-level wool marketing
improvement campaign is utiliz
ing the latest in baling equipment
and expert wool graders,” he said.
Because of funding provided
through the nation’s sheep pro
ducers, the industry is able to pro
vide itself with the kind of excel
lent educational effort in programs
such as the Sheep Industry Deve
lopment Program, Wasson said.
“With a critical shortage of educa
tional resources, these checkoff
funded programs and materials are
used extensively by universities
and the cooperative extension
service.”
Wasson said genetic evaluation
and improvement was addressed
with the creation of the National
Sheep Improvement Program, a
computerizes evaluation system.
“The Wool Act’s self-help
program has served the industry
well for the past 35 years,” Was
son said. “Over the years, we’ve
learned that supporting our parti
cular industry is considerably
more complicated than simply
advertising our products to the
consumer and expecting produc
ers to reap the benefits.”
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